Posted on 08/13/2023 6:44:46 PM PDT by grundle
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had told its hundreds of employees in San Francisco that it’s too dangerous to come in to the office.
HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl R. Campbell issued the stay-home recommendation in an Aug. 4 memo to regional leaders, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“In light of the conditions at the (Federal Building) we recommend employees … maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,” Campbell wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Chronicle.
The move underlines the spiral downward in the city, which has seen many companies abandon their outlets and workers shun coming in to offices in the city. The continued lack of foot traffic — exacerbated by open drug use among the street population — has many observers saying San Francisco is in a “doom loop,” in which negative events trigger more negative events, leading to an endless decline in quality of life.
The HHS memo underlines the dangers outside of the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street in the south of Market district. The 18-story tower at the corner of Seventh and Mission houses several federal agencies, including the departments of Labor and Transportation, as well as Pelosi’s office. It is unclear if the other agencies have issued similar advisories.
The area is reportedly also home to one of the city’s most brazen open-air drug markets on a daily basis.
Ironically, the memo from HHS came to light as President Joe Biden’s White House Chief of Staff called on more federal workers to return to the office.
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SF has a mess on its hands. SF made it. SF needs to clean it up all by themselves.
I remember when cities used to crack down on quality of life matters. Even the Daleys in Chicago didn’t tolerate thus crap.
Neither did the Mafia. SF needs an Al Capone and a few dozen Tommy Guns.
If democrats can turn a wealthy city like San Francisco into a hellhole - they can turn YOUR city into a hellhole too.
The building was completed in 2007. It is the ugliest building in all of San Francisco.
Notable, the San Francisco Federal Building is formally name the “Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.”
How fitting is that?
You don’t want to get near a Pelosi — it’s far too dangerous.
As if CODDLED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES DON’T ALREADY HAVE IT EASY ENOUGH.
That’s the Thom Mayne signature style right there!
But it gets even better.
There’s no Air Conditioning because, well, green, but the idea was that while San Fran needs heat, AC is really optional. (Of course, it’s miserable).
The elevators only stop every three floors (so the employees are “encouraged” to walk and get exercise).
And it’s aggressively ugly.
And to cap it off, now the drug dealers have set up shop in the plaza adjacent to the US Federal Government’s outpost in San Fransicko, and the Biden regime is too timid to clear them out.
You could not make this up.
So the Feds are admitting that residents in Democrat controlled hell-holes are in fact prisoners under house arrest due to their own policies.
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I can't believe the city let them build something like that in San Francisco.
It's like somebody said, "Hey San Francisco is too beautiful. We need to build a high-rise which will not only be ugly, but will detract from the architecture of the entire city."
The brass ring of government employees reach.
Yet another fed agency we’d be fine without.
Next they will be building city fortresses to keep employeees safe from rampant crime outside.
There is no way to remove the crime without offending someone.
It is, by far, the ugliest building I’ve seen anywhere at any time in my life.
When do we reach bottom and start the long climb back up?!
The Daleys were corrupt certainly, but the city worked and at least you knew who had to be paid.
I was going to say the same thing. I have NEVER seen an uglier building than that.
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